Cultural Council Agenda and Packet 2019 04 18

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v. Robby mentioned talking to the Kestrel community about more public art. vi. Adam mentioned the Cultural Arts Master Plan. vii. Kate mentioned forming a subcommittee; Katie agreed but mentioned the need for public notice if overtwo members. X. StaffReport(Katie): a. Reminderforthe Open Government meeting in May. There will be cookies! b. Community Park stage construction update: it's a little more complexthan we thought, but is still doable, and still affordable, although it's not certain if it can be done before the concerts start. The speaker platform will be completed before the summer. c. The City has released its Strategic Plan update. d. Blake is having an art opening and Katie passed around some flyers forthis. e. One of ourgrant recipients sent a nice thank you note, and Katie passed that around for members to see. f. Louisville MiddleSchool (LMS) is having a poetry night on April 11, and approached Katie to see if the LCC would wantto sponsorthe event. i. The discussion on this centered on what the contribution would be used for, with some initial consensus to give the minimum. ii. Jeff mentioned we might not want to set a precedentforthis type of donation, and the group concluded that we would not sponsorthisyear, but instead invite LMS to apply fora grant(s) nextyear. g. The Art Walk wants to develop more connections with the LCC. XI. Sculpture Garden (Kate): a. The agenda has pictures of the completed sculpture. b. Tyler (the artist) forgot to include $500 for crating and shipping, and the LCC will pay him that. c. Tyler would like to be presentforthe unveiling; however if he weren't al ready goingto be in the area, he would want his travel to be covered. d. Decided to have the unveiling at a time when he was goingto be here anyway, discussed doing on a summerweeknight. e. Adam mentioned having "visiting artists" and we decided to discussfurtherwhen we work out input for City Council PublicArtstudy session. XII. Art Grants Review: a. One grant was not accepted (Coal Creek Elementary). b. Face Academy would liketo do theirconcert in the fall instead since they have not found a suitable venueyet. c. Juliet Serrato (An American Dream Interrupted) is having issues around scheduling her play, so that is still being decided. d. What should we do with the $1200 that was granted to Coal Creek? Katie will get us more info and we will decide. e. Mark mentioned that lots of the grants this year went to projects forchildren and asked if we want to define and guide how we want the applications to work. Adam said we should review this process nextyear.